ArtYard and the Frenchtown Bookshop are excited to announce that award-winning singer-songwriter Susan Werner will appear in their Concerts at ArtYard series. The performance is 8 PM on Friday, June 17 at ArtYard’s McDonnell Theater.
Tickets are $35. Get tickets here.
There is truly no one in contemporary music writing “sharp, funny, compassionate lyrics” (Washington Post) like those of Susan Werner. Her training as a jazz pianist and opera singer — she has a Master’s in vocal performance — make her concerts a master class in musicianship and raises her to “the elite of American songwriters” (Direct Current). Her 12 albums cover the genres of folk, jazz, gospel, and Broadway-style American Standards. No wonder her songs have been recorded by Tom Jones, Michael Feinstein, Betty Buckley, and Christine Ebersole, and NPR called her “The Empress of the Unexpected.”
In short, in the words of Nashville Music Row Magazine, “This woman is great. Period.” But, in 25 years of nonstop touring and recording, she has continually reinvented herself. The has recorded albums of vintage-sounding songs in the style of Gershwin and Cole Porter (“I Can’t Be New”); witty gospel-styled songs that weave soulfulness and doubt (“The Gospel Truth”); songs with Cuban rhythms following her tour there (“An American in Havana”); New Orleans jazzy songs (“NOLA”); and a side-splitting collection of humorous songs including “What Did You Do To Your Face” (about bad plastic surgery) and “Pabst Blue Ribbon” (about the aphrodisiac effects of Milwaukee’s finest beer).
Werner will be accompanied for this performance by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Trina Hamlin, who will also open the evening.
